“Drawn as a tangle” means that you repeat a series of elemental strokes in a certain structured way so you inevitably end up with a particular pattern without needing to know what the pattern you are creating is supposed to look like.

Usually the number of elemental strokes needed are 3 or less. Often, you only need one or two. By “elemental strokes” we mean a dot, a straight(-ish) line, a curve (like a parenthesis), a reverse curve (like an “S”), and an orb or circle.

It also has to be done without any underlying pencil structure or preplanned grid.

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And here she features Balo in a lovely piece of Zentangle-inspired art (ZIA) with several other familiar tangle patterns.

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This is a very beautiful pattern :). I have a question about the copyright. If im drawing anything and I decided to included this pattern on my own drawing, do I have to ask for permission? Im confuse and I don’t want to have troubles with the law. 🙂

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